Re: delete-file to trash

From:

Leo

Subject:

Re: delete-file to trash

Date:

Sun, 23 May 2010 09:57:45 +0100

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On 2010-05-23 03:16 +0100, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> PS: And yes, for interactive calls to delete-file, the `allow-trash'
>> should be non-nil, I think.
>
> Yeah, but omitted means nil. Hmm.
If the interactive-form is like the following:
(interactive (list (read-file-name "Delete file: " nil default-directory
(confirm-nonexistent-file-or-buffer)) 'allow-trash))
it is not omitted and the doc-string can say when called interactively
it always respects delete-by-moving-to-trash. Then
> Here's an idea: allow the variable `delete-by-moving-to-trash' to be a
> list of values of `this-command', for which to trash instead of
> delete. Then we could set the default value of this list to be
> `delete-file', `dired-do-flagged-delete', etc.
we can avoid maintaining a list of commands and make
delete-by-moving-to-trash a much easier to customise option since it
requires less information to customise. It looks to me delete-file is
almost exclusively used non-interactively.
Leo